Meat and food cutter.



N. R. STREETER.

MEAT AND FOOD CUTTER.

APPLICATION msmosc. 12, ms.

Patented Aug. 10, 1915.

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MEAT ann'roon Curran.

Specification of Letters Patent. P t t d A n 1 15.

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following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to'improvements in meat and food cutters or grinders, and has for its primary object to provide a device of this nature having a stationarycuttin-g element removably secured to the discharge end of the body and having blades alined with longitudinal ribs formed within the body. V 1

Another object of the invention is to provide a meat'and food cutter having anovelly formed stationary cutting element which may be easily and quickly detached to facilitate sharpening and which'may be quickly reattached to the body in its proper position.

With these and other-objects in view as will become more apparent as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel-features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as willbe hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

. For a complete understanding of my invention, reference is to behad to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which Figure is a perspective view of my im proved food cutter, Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view, showing the discharge end of the body and the stationary cutting element which is secured thereto,and Fig. 3 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view through the discharge end of the cutter, with parts thereof shown in elevation.

Referring in detail to the drawings by numerals, 5 designates, as an entirety, the cylindrical body of my improved food cut ter, said body being formed integrally with an arm or bracket 6 and a hopper 7 The body is formed internally with a plurality of longitudinal cutting and feed ribs 8, which extend parallel to one another, Whichterminate flush with the outer end of the body, and which are slightly enlarged adjacent their outer terminals, as indicated by the numeral 9. The ribs 8 are formed with nected thereto.

prises a ring 1s, a pair ofapertured cars 15,

straight cutting edges 10 xtending parallel with :the longitudinal axis ofthe body 5 and are gradually increased in thickness toward the discharge end of the hopper, as indicated at 9, on the sides opposite the cutting edges 10 so as to reinforcethe free ends of thevribs, and slightly compress the material passing through the food cutter before it is operated upon by the rotary cutter, to be hereinafter described. The outer end ofthe body is externally enlarged to form a flange indicated by the numeral 11 which is provided with a pair of diametrically opiposed apertured ears 12. r

A relatively stationary cutting element, generally designated 13, is removably secured to, the discharge-end of the body and may be quickly detached therefrom and con- This cuttingelement com and ayplurality of cutting blades .16 corresponding in number to the number of cutting and feeding ribs 8. The external diameter of the ring is substantially equal to that of the flangejll, and the cars 15 are formed with openings which register with openings formed in the cars 12, and the cutting ele'ment is secured in position by screws 1 '17 which are threaded through these cars.

The internal diameter of the ring adjacent its inner face is equal to the internal diameter of thebody 5, as indicated by the numeral 18,'but the diameteradjacent the outer face of the ring is somewhat greater since the ring is beveled, as indicated by the nu meral 19. The blades 16 extend radially from the interior of the ring 14:, have their outer terminals squared with the outer face of the ring and their inner terminals abutting the ends of the longitudinal ribs 10; It 1 will be noted upon reference to Fig. 2 that 7 these blades areof the same width attheir inner endsas the adjacent enlarged ends 9 of the ribs 8 and taper outward-slightly.

Each blade 16 is formed with two cutting edges 16 and 16 the'edge 16 being disposed parallel with the longitudinal axis of the body 5 and forming a continuation of the cutting edge 10 of the alined rib 8, and the edge 16 being disposed at right angles to the edge 16 or radially of the body '5, terminating flush with the outer edge of the ring 14 and adapted to cooperate with the rotary cutter. V

A feed screw 20 is positioned within the cutter and has its outer end in the plane of the outer' face of the cutting element 13.

p This screw is rotated by means of an arm 21 and has attached to its outer end a rotary cutter 22 in the form of 'an apertured disk. Therotary cutter 22 is secured to' the'end of the screw by a wing nut 23 fitted upon a reduced screw-threaded projection 24 carefiiciently out food as itis forced through i the delivery end of the cutter by the screw 20. 1

In the manufacture of my improved food cutter, the body 5 and the parts integrally connected therewith are preferably cast of iron which is a comparatively cheap mate-v rial, and the cutting element 13 is formed of tool steel, which insures 61110161113 "operation. The greatestwear comes on the cutters 13 and 22, and therefore it will be appreciated that it is essential to havethese members formed of the bestpossible material, such as,

tool steel, whereas the remainder ofthe cutter may, as before stated, be formed of cast iron or any other suitable material. 7

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be seen that I have provided a Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing 1 Washington, D. G.

meat and food cutter having a removable cutting element which may be easily and quickly attached to and detached from the delivery end of the body, and which cooperates with a feed screw and a rotary cutter to produce a highly efiicient machine.

Vlfhile I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be understood the minor changes in construction, combination and arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim In a meat and food cutter, a cylindrical body,-a plurality of fiat blades arranged interiorly of said cylindrical body having straight cutting edges extending parallel with the longitudinal aXis of said body, the ends of said blades at the discharge end of said body being increased in thickness on the sides opposite the cutting edges, a relatively stationary cutter element secured to the dischargeend of said body,'a plurality of flat blades extending radially and inwardly of said cutter element and having cutting edges extending in alinement with the first mentionedcutting edges. g

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature inpresence of two witnesses.

NELSON R. STREETER.

W. C. DAVIS,

' WVitnesses: v i

R. M. SMITH.

the Commissioner of Patents, 

